SBLOCK: A Framework for Efficient Stencil-Based PDE Solvers on Multi-core Platforms
Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Computer and Information Technology (CIT), 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference (June 2010), pp. 1181-1188.
@conference{brandvik2010sblock,
title={SBLOCK: A Framework for Efficient Stencil-Based PDE Solvers on Multi-core Platforms},
author={Brandvik, T. and Pullan, G.},
booktitle={Computer and Information Technology (CIT), 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on},
pages={1181–1188},
year={2010},
organization={IEEE}
}
We present a new software framework for the implementation of applications that use stencil computations on block-structured grids to solve partial differential equations. A key feature of the framework is the extensive use of automatic source code generation which is used to achieve high performance on a range of leading multi-core processors. Results are presented for a simple model stencil running on Intel and AMD CPUs as well as the NVIDIA GT200 GPU. The generality of the frame- work is demonstrated through the implementation of a complete application consisting of many different stencil computations, taken from the field of computational fluid dynamics.
November 20, 2010 by hgpu
